Has @Horse_ebooks become self-aware? And has it started self-promoting?

Some background: It is thought that @Horse_ebooks, the funny Twitter robot that chops and screws snippets of text from ebooks and marketing pitches, then regurgitates them into surreal found poetry on Twitter, is entirely automated, and that its aleatory tweets are the happy by-product of a misguided and nonsensical attempt to market ebooks.

Kimberly Walters tweets as @aRealLiveGhost. She searches through the massive 16,478-tweet archive of the Twitter bot @horse_ebooks, picks out specific tweets, then retweets them in a sequence to create a poem. She’s given us a set of exclusive poems. Here’s the latest.

Kimberly Walters tweets as @aRealLiveGhost. She searches through the massive 16,435-tweet archive of the Twitter bot @horse_ebooks, picks out specific tweets, then retweets them in a sequence to create a poem. She’s given us a set of exclusive poems. Here’s the latest.

Kimberly Walters tweets as @aRealLiveGhost. She searches through the massive 16,195-tweet archive of the Twitter bot @horse_ebooks, picks out specific tweets, then retweets them in a sequence to create a poem. She’s given us a set of exclusive poems. Here’s the first.